Michael Hoke (1874 – 1944) was a leading

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who pioneered the advance of the science for disabled children throughout the

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. The son of

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Robert F. Hoke Robert Frederick Hoke (May 27, 1837 – July 3, 1912) was a Confederate major general during the American Civil War. He was present at one of the earliest battles, the Battle of Big Bethel, where he was commended for coolness and judgment. Wo ...

, Michael Hoke spent his childhood in

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. He was a nephew of Robert Van Wyck, the first

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after the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898. Hoke attended the

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, where he was captain of the school's first great football team in

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. He was involved in the founding of the first Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in

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. He served as one of five orthopedic consultants in the development of

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' Children's Hospitals across the United States. He served on the Alfred I. DuPont Institute for Crippled Children in

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. In 1931, President

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appointed Hoke as the medical director of the Institution for the Treatment of Infantile Paralysis in

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References

''The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery''

1874 births 1944 deaths American football halfbacks American orthopedic surgeons North Carolina Tar Heels football players People from Raleigh, North Carolina Players of American football from North Carolina

Michael Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...

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